"Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on."

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J.R. Ward

#Adrenal Glands Quotes #Middle Quotes #Glands Quotes

“We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.”

Source : Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.29, Beacon Press
“A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.”
“There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.”
“The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’”
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
“Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.”

Source : Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.50
“Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.”
“I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.”

Source : "Christianity In Crisis: The 21st Century". Book by Hank Hanegraaff, 2012.

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